Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!ken
From: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Why is everyone bitching about Workbench
Message-ID: <15446@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 29 Oct 90 15:11:56 GMT
References: <35239@cup.portal.com> <6895@sugar.hackercorp.com> <29244@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1990Oct26.202218.23039@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
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In article <1990Oct26.202218.23039@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>In article <29244@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>>
>>And as an author of YAWBR (Jazzbench), I wouldn't mind putting in a few of
>>my own:
>>	4.  No access to devices like prt: par: ser: pipe:, etc.
>>
>	It would be TRIVIAL to create an icon that would copy the
>file. Under 2.0 you can open a window or an icon which will
>recognize when an icon is dropped on it...Use AppIcon and do it!

This kind-of assumes a very simple file structure (can you say ASCII?).
You could make your program more complicated and have it handle IFF files,
but what would you do with word processor data files, 3-D objects,
postscript, and the like?  What happens when you copy a SMUS file to ser:?
This all works only if you have very simple data files or a very smart
program.
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